On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 03:51:48PM +0100, John Pilkington wrote: > On 18/07/17 15:03, Ed Greshko wrote: > >On 07/18/17 20:59, William Oliver wrote: > >>I'm running Fedora 26 on a slightly old HP laptop using KDE. One minor > >>irritation is that whenever I close the lid of the laptop, the network > >>turns off -- both wifi and wired. > > <snip> > > FWIW I'll report that I have two old HP laptops running kubuntu > xenial. I lost all wifi on one after an update in early June and > haven't been able to get it back. The 3945ABG firmware isn't > loading. It has a BCM5787M controller. The other still has wifi; > 3945 again, but BCM5788 > > John P > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx do you have the network configured to be available to all users? If not, perhaps closing the lids makes the network drop, whereas enabling that option might prevent I haven't seen this, so I'm only guessing,... I have my laptop set to allow that, and it doesn't have the problem, so who knows.... -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx